mind map - making a game project (open project)

research - making a game project (open project)

games

Games, what makes a game? How do we define that something is a game? Well as far as we know, a game is something in which we play and get entertainment out of the games in which we play today, such as halo, or destiny, but that is not necessarily correct, a game is something in which has both a winning and losing factor, if you cannot win or lose, it isn’t exactly classed as a game. An example of a game could be “one chance” it may not seem to have both a win or loss factor, but it does, the winning/good ending is just quite depressing, the aim of  the game is to save the world and you have only one chance, the losing factor is when you end up dying and not saving the world, the winning factor is when you’re able to make a cure (for an gas induced “so called cancer cure” which is killing everyone) but are only able to cure either yourself, or yourself and your daughter, an example of something which people would probably class a game but isn’t could be halo, there is no win or lose factor for this game, if you die, you re-spawn, and I doubt completing the game could be classed as winning, the only way this could be classed as a proper game in any way is if when the player died, they stopped playing all together or they deleted the character, same with winning, to win you’d have to never die and when the credits roll, you never play again, but no one would really do that...
another example could be minecraft, this is a sandbox "game" it's called a game but not actually a game as there is no win or lose factor, just.. building of blocks.

induction project/ evaluation

hello this is my induction project, for it i had to create a character in a post apocalyptic world, i have created a back story for her however when reading it it may not seem post apocalyptic, but it is, believe me the world is almost fully destroyed, people and battling for their lives.
for starters i have created some sketches, vague sketches, due to the fact all items for any character would be chosen from personal preference, so i wrote about the basics of the different Armour which could be used, clothing and sword type!

 these are all basic sketches and annotations of the basic Armour requirements you'll need in a battle, such as leg plate, chest plate, arm plate etc etc

next i did some character designs  i did 3 character designs as i did have a few basic ideas in my head, but i wanted to make 3 very detailed drawings of my ideas and pick which one i liked the most

i decided to go along with the green and white design ( the second one) as it seemed alot more interesting, especially with the large shoulder plates

the see through areas of clothing are created from plasma, it is all basically plasma Armour, it will protect you from bullets and lasers,

orthographics
 this was my first attempt at creating the orthorgraphics for my character, it didnt go well as nothing really matched up with the size of the face/ the shape etc, it all looked quite messy to be honest, so i kept trying to improve it

this is some of my improvements, here i am working on the shaping of the head and how to draw heads in a different way, which is alot better than what i was doing before, doing this method which is kind of shown make this alot more align with each other, and even











here are my final orthorgraphics, where i have the side and front shot, and an attempt at doing a 45 degree angle shot, these orthorgraphics are alot better then the first attempt, as these ones line up correctly, they are alot more even, the shape has improved.







drawing my character

 this is merely just a head shot of the character, the reason behind it is to: 1) show her face in action, when she is charging into battle etc, and 2) to see the eye detail as im not good at drawing it when i do full body pictures

this is an action stance (sort of) of my character, both traditionally drawn and digitally, the one on the right is meerly a quick sketch where as the one on the left is to show colour and the detail/ plasma of the sword etc.






Creating my characters head

CLAY

 first off i started with just creating a simple skull out of some special clay so i could get the basics of a head shape, due to the fact the shape of a head has many bumps and curves to it, so crafting a skull can give me a very good idea of how it should look

here is the small bust i created of my character out of some more special type of clay, it isn't 100% accurate but i was able to get some hair spikiness in, the shoulder plates, and also the bandages around the right eye.

MUDBOX
mud box is a software used for creating models of any kind, i used a simple bust model to create my character, now for this part of the project i was meant to put it into maya and make it look pretty (render it to add light/ shadow/ effect to it) but i have no idea how to do that ( seriously ive done research upon it , ive asked people and i still cant do it) so i took some screen shots of my bust instead at many different angles! seeing as this was my first ever attempt at creating something like this, it obviously isn't going to be great.

Digital orthorgraphics

for another part of my project i was to create digitalized orthorgraphics of my character, due to certain circumstances, i was only able to do thios drawing last minute, so it looks quite rough and rushed, but the basic shape and detail needed (in my opinion) is on there. i did most of the deatil on the first front view picture and less detail on the side view as i mainly just wanted to show the shape of the head, to show it has some dimensions and cuves/ shape to it and isnt just a flat face.

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Character back story

Information:

Name: Rose Sinclair

Age: 22

Born: 16^th march 2945

Faction/guild: Emerald 

Rose Sinclair lives in the year 2967, where everything is run by plasma energy. After the year 2900, the world got split into two, the east, and the west, and since they split, they have been at war with each other to see who could be the rightful rulers of the earth, another reason they are at war, is because the west side own most of the plasma energy in the world, the east have hardly any, so they decided to declare war against the west

The east

 For the east to declare war, they took all materials and plasma energy they had into creating powerful machinery and robots/ mechas to destroy those of the west side, killing the people, destroying the land and taking all plasma energy they could, they thought that once they have obtained all the energy and killed all those who belong in the west, they could live peaceful lives, with upgrading their machinery even more to advance their lives seeing as they would have a lot more plasma, so they could not only live on longer, and in better conditions but everything will be equal again

 

The west

The west were peaceful, and rich in energy until they got attacked by the east, it took a while before the west could fight back, using their high amount of plasma energy, they were able to create weapons and armour strong enough to withstand attacks from the machinery, and attack back, defending themselves and those around them, those who would fight for the west west where split into 4 groups: sapphire, ruby, emerald and diamond. These are basically the different factions throughout the west, it shows what rank you are in, the elite fighters would be in diamond, emerald would just be below diamond then it would follow by sapphire and ruby, ruby being the worst fighters, so they were usually made to upgrade weapons, and Armour.

Rose

Rose lived her life in safety as her family where put up to fight the east and not her, even though this war has been going on for almost a century, she has wondered why it hasn’t yet ended. However she noticed the west began to develop more and become more powerful as she got older, by the age of 12 her parents got upgraded to the diamond faction so she pretty much felt safe, she didn’t have to worry about this war, or worry about having to becoming a fighter, yet she secretly trained by swinging a sword around now and then and  sparing with her friends By the age of 18 she was forced to start fighting for the west, usually you would start at an early age, however rose was hidden for quite a while, as she was too scared to fight, her family got killed by the east when she was only 16, so it resulted in her hiding away, she was found though 2 years later, however because of her unnatural fighting skills, which she was able to develop mainly on pure adrenalin and plasma energy which she was able to fuse with her own body (kind of like drug taking, if you swallow, sniff and inject the plasma energy into you, you will get side affects which can be permanent, which is what happened to her) she was ranked into the emerald fraction not too long after joining the fight, she was however offered to join the diamond fraction, but declined as, just a mention of the diamond faction bought back memories of her dead family, which caused her to have a terrifying but dramatic mental break down.

She wears a white dress, with green plasma Armour on top of it to deflect any robotic attacks; her weapon consists of a large green plasma great sword, which can be turned into a plasma rifle by a few flicks of the wrist.

evaluation
overall i think this project was okay, it was fun doing something ive never done before, but trying to get it all done in a matter of 2 weeks is a little tricky for me as i do get ill alot and have to miss out quite abit, which means i have to try and get certain software at home so i can do the work i need to, i disliked creating the heads with the clay, as clay can dry really fast so if you dont work fast you cant make your model, and i can't do fast, i prefer to take my time with things. making a 3d model in mud box is alot easier,however the software is faulty and easily crashes and breaks, so it is quite hard to get anything done under these circumstances. as said the photoshop/ digital drawing was done last minute, i cant work photoshop, it isnt my favorite software, so it is difficult for me to draw on it, overall this project may have been fun but it was difficult, mainly because i was using things for the first time and we only had 2 weeks to do it, so it was a bit of a rush.

induction

this is beginning of a new year of game development, and so i will be doing a 2 week long project to welcome myself back into the year, for this project i will be required to create some 3d models of heads, of a character i design in a post apocolyptic world, i get to create everything for the character and everything around the character, all back story, images, drawings, working, progress etc will be posted upon this blog! enjoy!